now it's time for you to hear the song that david friedman and i composed just for you.e amazing broadway cara lee caramelo singing "a mother's heart." ♪ ♪ not much they say is much stronger than steel ♪ ♪ its strength is awesome its power is real ♪ ♪ but i know something that right from the start is stronger than anything ♪ ♪ a mother's heart ♪ a doctor told her just let your son die ♪ ♪ he's not meant to live and you're not to ask why ♪ ♪ but the mother refused to do as he said ♪ ♪ she took her son home and she tucked him in bed and loved him ♪ for 53 years ♪ a mother's heart beats deep in her soul ♪ ♪ who could imagine the suffering the toll ♪ ♪ can anything pierce the deepest part of a mother's love ♪ a mother's heart ♪ as her son grew he grew harder to lift ♪ ♪ but she realized he has been given a gift ♪ ♪ he loved his music and each song he'd hear he'd sit at the piano and play it by ear ♪ ♪ and she loved that ♪ for 53 years ♪ yes a mother's heart burns deep in her soul ♪ ♪ who can imagine how it makes her whole ♪ ♪ to truly live that special joy in one mother's he

composer david friedman. e every time, right? >> every, every time. >> now, we have some parting gifts for our friends, don't we? >> we like to give a couple surprises out. we wanted someone to take care of you two for a change so blackberry farm in tennessee donated a weekend for two, you get meals, facials, massages. that way you don't have to get on a plane, you can giddyup and go. and it's going to be a fun little -- a thing for the two of you. >> that's what we wanted, a spa treatment for your mom. >> she deserves that. are you going to enjoy that? >> thank you so much. yes. i will. >> it's been a pleasure. >> you know, i want to explain to everybody how we come to the understanding of which letter we're going to pick. everybody's story is amazing. and we wish we could do it all of the time, but it's the letter itself which grabs our attention, right, dave? and our producers. and so tell us your story in the most poetic way you can. give us a phrase that's going to lead to a beautiful lyric that we can --

friedman on u.s. competitiveness , elected u.s. foreign policy with the assistant secretary of state for east asian affairs. and british prime minister davidcameron on free-market capitalism. tomorrow, president to candid it's newt gingrich and ron paul will speak at the seven republican conference in charleston, south carolina. live road to the white house coverage begins at 9:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span2. >> road to the white house coverage says the events leading up to the saturday primary. >> the obama administration standout of the policy that said that in her program she cannot teach abstinence as a preferable way of avoiding out-of-wedlock birth, and she can't talk about marriage. she can't talk about marriage as any other than an alternative lifestyle that is no better or worse than any other lifestyle. my question is, why? >> when the president adopts a stimulus package of hundreds of billions of dollars a notice is read and then discovers to his great surprise two years later as he himself put it that the shovel-ready jobs or not show already in the stimulus fails the leaves as $800 billion deeper in debt, at some point he has